Hi folks,
Background: I am not the most tech savvy person. For the last few years I have been making music with hardware synthesizers. The technology here has progressed to a point where some devices can even output audio over USB quite effectively. I had never recorded audio or video on a computer - all of my work has been purely for my own consumption. More recently, I had been given strong incentive to change that, and I have been looking into ways to record some of my performances. In the music world, many people directed me to use a DAW. While I see benefits, I am more interested in simultaneously recording audio and video, and being able to also take the audio out in standalone situations.
So I tried OBS, and on my own I actually found it quite easy to set-up for recording. The issue is, I am completely lost in formats. Naturally I would like video and audio to be in the highest quality my computer is capable of recording on, but I was given criteria for the audio that I am apparently not meeting. Specifically, I need to be recording in PCM .WAV Stereo 24bit format. From what I can see, OBS doesn't have a way to export .WAV files directly, but is it possible to record a video in .MOV or .MP4 format, and then extract the .WAV audio in that format above? I don't even understand the options in OBS for things like audio bit rate.
Is there a way to do this in OBS, or am I better off recording video and audio separately? If that is the case, I guess I would also need to learn how to synchronize the two.
Thank you to anyone who read this and has an answer. I deeply appreciate the time.
Background: I am not the most tech savvy person. For the last few years I have been making music with hardware synthesizers. The technology here has progressed to a point where some devices can even output audio over USB quite effectively. I had never recorded audio or video on a computer - all of my work has been purely for my own consumption. More recently, I had been given strong incentive to change that, and I have been looking into ways to record some of my performances. In the music world, many people directed me to use a DAW. While I see benefits, I am more interested in simultaneously recording audio and video, and being able to also take the audio out in standalone situations.
So I tried OBS, and on my own I actually found it quite easy to set-up for recording. The issue is, I am completely lost in formats. Naturally I would like video and audio to be in the highest quality my computer is capable of recording on, but I was given criteria for the audio that I am apparently not meeting. Specifically, I need to be recording in PCM .WAV Stereo 24bit format. From what I can see, OBS doesn't have a way to export .WAV files directly, but is it possible to record a video in .MOV or .MP4 format, and then extract the .WAV audio in that format above? I don't even understand the options in OBS for things like audio bit rate.
Is there a way to do this in OBS, or am I better off recording video and audio separately? If that is the case, I guess I would also need to learn how to synchronize the two.
Thank you to anyone who read this and has an answer. I deeply appreciate the time.